I can't remember...

I can't seem to remember what I used to blog about. The only thing I can think to post are the remaining Cool Things, but beyond that, I'm suspiciously out of ideas. I was thinking to myself: I haven't posted in a while, it would be nice to make a blog post. But I couldn't remember... What was it? What would I share each day? I genuinely have been having a hard time coming up with anything to post--perhaps because I have posted it all before; perhaps because I needed a little holiday, a break; or perhaps because, in my current iteration, I have lost the blog master spirit.

It takes energy to run a blog. It takes courage, and that's not something many people realize. What I fully realize is without spirit, action is near impossible. Once, not long ago by some standards, but quite long ago in others, I lost the business analyst spirit. I worked in a cubical office. I crunched numbers and kept a wary eye on the market. I made decisions and watched others make poor decisions. Until one day I woke up and I didn't. I woke up and had lost the business analyst spirit, and in a big way. I needed out. And as you are aware, became a blog master instead.

Do not fear, do not panic--I don't need out of being a blog master. I am not interested in relinquishing my blog master title; that is not the point of this tale. I am just sharing about different instances of losing spirit. There are some spirits that, when you lose them, you don't miss them. You don't want to chase them. You want to rinse the taste of them from your memory. For me, that is the business analytics spirit. It will always be a part of me, a part of how I frame my experiences and understand the world, but the spirit itself is relinquished. That is not the path I wish to follow with the blog master spirit. Being a blog master has opened a world of creativity which, in the world of numbers from which I was once accustomed, was not accessible to me. I do not plan to give that up. So, how do you find that spirit? How do you find the spark that will light the fire that will burn within and without?

My friends, quite simply: by doing.

-Frank